Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

- Christopher Reeve

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

11.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

12.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

13.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

14.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

15.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

16.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

17.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

18.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

19.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

23.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

25.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

26.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

28.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

29.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

32.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

33.

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

34.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

35.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

37.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

39.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

40.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

42.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

43.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

45.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

47.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

48.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

49.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

50.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William